Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-22
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m AXE political capital out Of the Presidents. 8.
Message recommending radical reduction
of the duties on wool will find their task ex-
ceedingly laborious. The President takes the
ground that there are more people who wear
clothes than there are who raise sheep, and
he doesn't think the many ought to be taxed
to benefit the few. The fact is, however,
that the number of sheep largely declined in
Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Illinois,
Tennessee, Iowa and even in Ohio, from 1870
to 1880, under the highest wool duties. This
was in obedience, not to the tariff law, but to
the industrial law which made the lands in
those States too valuable and too dear for
sheep raising. In Texas, the sheep product
of which largely increased from 1870 to 1880,
the tendency has lately been arrested by the
same law. But the people of Texas are not
bleating for the wool tax. In obedience to
this economic law, sheep raising has been
transferred to the cheap lands of the new
States and Territories; and in some Of these
the product has decreased because of the ac-
tion of the government in removing the fem
ces by which large tracts of the public do
main we're inclosed for sheep ranges. Upon
the cheap lands of the far West sheep can be
raised as proftably as in Australia. If wool
has declined in price in this country it has
declined still more In Australia and other
parts of the world. In the general fall Of
prices wheat, cheese, beef and many other
products have declined, but this decline was
not due to tariff laws. The farmers Of Ohio
might as well ask the Government to give
them bounty on wheat as cheaply as it can
be raised in Iowa or Dakota as to expect that
Government duties on wool can overturn a
great economic law.-Van Vert Times.
The following Information relating to pat
ents granted by the United States patentiof-
fee, for the week ending Dec. 9Th, 1887, as
compiled from the official records by the
Howard Bros, solicitors of patents, cor. 7th
and Sts. n. W., Washington, D. c..
Total granted to citizens of the US
Patents and designs Observation-Disclosures 404
Trademarks and labels. els......... IS
Total granted to citizens of foreign coun-
tries:
Patents and designs. s.................... %
Trademarks and labels .............. 4
To residents Of the State of Ohio:
Geo. Apple and 9. W. Brandon, Greenville,
vehicle.
VIM. A. Babcock, Cleveland, faucet ap-
paratus.
r. M. Barrett and G. F. Wooster, axle box.
VIM. F. Berry, Massillon, balanced-valve.
TT Rorn GlavaIand Ovan-daor
M. Bourke, Youngstown, brush or mop
holder
g. r. Brinkerhoff, Bucyrus, machine for
wrapping strips for use in the manufacture
of rugs, &c.
@. E. Davis, Columbus, piano-stool.
z. Davis, Cleveland, pleumber or timers
furnace.
w. A. Doty, Columbus, hustle.
J.J. Geiger and /. T. Wood, Clyde, reed
for holding wire-netting.
| A. v. Hartle, Goshen, neck yoke and tongue
| tip.
E. N. Hatcher, Columbus, axle skein.
| Ellis Hoover, West Milton, automatic grain
weigher.
door.
]. A. Jeffery, Columbus. carrier.
| g. @. Keene, Cincinnati, combined cornice
brake and shearing machine.
Nv. Koblentz, Springfield, overlapping
tool.
VIM. McHose, Dayton, dust chute.
| L. F. Parks, Cincinnati, tenoning machine.
Vim. Nj. Piatt, Mack o-cheek, grain binder.
r. @. Rice, Warren, telescopic sight for
fire arms.
j. II. Swartabaugh, Tifin, spark arrester.
Metellus Thompson, Kenton, salt-cellar.
/ F. @. Weir, Cincinnati, switch stand
1 j. White, Cleveland, finishing and orna-
menting safes.
R. W. whitney and F. Puttz, Cleveland.
4 transmitter.
4 E. F.W. zarbock. Cleveland, bolt.